Bøger af Matilda Joslyn Gage

""Woman, Church, and State"" is a seminal feminist work authored by Matilda Joslyn Gage, a prominent figure in the 19th-century women's rights movement. In this groundbreaking book, Gage critiques the patriarchal structure of society and its entwinement with religion, particularly Christianity. She examines the historical oppression of women by institutionalized religion, challenging traditional interpretations of scripture that perpetuate gender inequality. Gage argues for the separation of church and state, advocating for women's rights to autonomy, equality, and full participation in society. Drawing on historical evidence and feminist analysis, she exposes the ways in which religion has been used as a tool to subjugate women and restrict their freedoms. ""Woman, Church, and State"" remains a pivotal text in feminist literature, inspiring generations of activists to challenge systems of oppression and advocate for gender justice.

Woman, Church and State is a book by American writer and activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, first published in 1893. Vehemently anti-clerical, this was one of the first books to draw the conclusion that Christianity is a primary impediment to the progress of women, as well as civilization, arguing that the church was responsible for women's oppression throughout history. Then, as now, religious doctrine was used as a justification for the dehumanization of women, depriving them of civil, human, economic and political rights, even denying them the right to worship alongside men. Gage reviews extensive evidence of this complex. In 1913, Women, Church, and State was banned under the Comstock Laws, that dealt with the suppression of trade in so-called obscene literature.

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The Dangers of the Hour was delivered at the Woman's National Liberal Union in 1890.

""Who Planned The Tennessee Campaign Of 1862? Or Anna Ella Carroll Vs. Ulysses S. Grant: A Few Generally Unknown Facts In Regard To Our Civil War"" is a historical book written by Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1880. The book explores the question of who was responsible for planning the Tennessee Campaign of 1862 during the American Civil War. Gage presents evidence to support the claim that Anna Ella Carroll, a little-known political strategist and writer, was the mastermind behind the campaign, rather than the widely recognized military leader Ulysses S. Grant. The author provides a detailed account of Carroll's life and her involvement in the war effort, shedding light on her contributions to the Union's victory. The book also examines the role of women in the Civil War and challenges the traditional narrative of male-dominated military history. Overall, ""Who Planned The Tennessee Campaign Of 1862?"" offers a fresh perspective on a pivotal moment in American history and highlights the often-overlooked contributions of women to the war effort.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Excerpt from Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages; With Reminiscences of the Matriarchate This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding appeal and argument alike met by the assertion that God designed the subjection of woman, and yet that her position had been higher under Christianity than ever before: Continually hearing these statements, and knowing them to be false, I refuted them in a slight resume of the subject at the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D. C, 1878. A wish to see that speech in print, having been expressed, it was allowed to appear in The National Citizen, a woman suffrage paper I then edited, and shortly afterwards in "The History of Woman Suffrage," of which I was also an editor. The kindly reception given both in the United States and Europe to that meager chapter of forty pages confirmed my purpose of a fuller presentation of the subject in book form, and it now appears, the result of twenty years investigation, in a volume of over five hundred and fifty pages. Read it; examine for yourselves; accept or reject from the proof offered, but do not allow the Church or the State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Presenting a history of woman's oppression, this book attempts to document the sad legacy of injustice and discrimination against women, which is inseparable from the history of both Christianity and the evolution of the Western state. It also traces the patterns of male domination in both church and state that kept women in virtual bondage.